Macintosh HD icon is gone AGAIN

i have the same problem the second time, it was solved before but this time, it's weekend and i cannot get the help from the service center till monday.
do you think it's okay to still use the computer for another day? all the files are there, no problem working except the icon is gone from the desktop.
thank you.

Sounds like your drive got the invisible bit set. They probably had you reset it in Terminal. There is a peculiar Leopard variation of the problem where adding a Spotlight Comment in GetInfo to a drive or partition will cause it go invisible. For this problem you need to both remove the comment, remove the metadata entry for the comment, and reset the the visible bit. See my article for more information:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html
And, aside from the annoyance factor, it doesn't hurt a thing for the drive to have the invisible bit set. The article tells you how to make an alias to the drive which you can use to open the drive, if the other things sound too technical to do yourself.
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